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Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used

Historically excluded from Colorado River policy, tribes want a say in how the dwindling resource is used

Today, 15 percent of Southern Utes living on the reservation in southwest Colorado don’t have running water in their homes at all.
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Funding for greenhouse gas regulation in danger despite huge New Mexico budget surplus

Funding for greenhouse gas regulation in danger despite huge New Mexico budget surplus

While the state is flush with record fossil fuel revenues, key legislators oppose full funding of state agencies that police the industry.
capitalandmain.com
Energy ratings don't capture high building emissions

Energy ratings don't capture high building emissions

Buildings with the highest U.K. performance ratings are using far more energy than those with the lowest ratings, according to recent data. It’s a disparity that shows the limitations of current green building standards.
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In Portland, youth activists are driving a highway revolt

In Portland, youth activists are driving a highway revolt

For months, a group of youthful climate activists have waged a battle to halt a Portland highway expansion — and turn U.S. transportation policy around. 
www.bloomberg.com
Airlines flying near-empty flights as omicron forces travel cancellations

Airlines flying near-empty flights as omicron forces travel cancellations

One airline says it may need to fly 18,000 “poorly booked” flights this winter but the European Union disputes that figure.
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People who survive multiple disasters have worse mental health

People who survive multiple disasters have worse mental health

Mental resiliency could be harder to rebuild than a house or business in places that have experienced multiple disasters, study suggests.
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Biden administration proposes updates to mobile home energy-efficiency

Biden administration proposes updates to mobile home energy-efficiency

For the first time since 1994, the government must update energy-efficiency standards for manufactured houses. Some, however, have already been finding workarounds.
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House panel asks Big Oil board members to testify about climate disinformation

House panel asks Big Oil board members to testify about climate disinformation

Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee previously grilled the chief executives of the four oil and gas companies, as well as two trade associations they fund, at a blockbuster six-hour hearing in October.
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Old-fashioned, inefficient light bulbs live on at the nation's dollar stores

Old-fashioned, inefficient light bulbs live on at the nation's dollar stores

A Trump administration weakening of climate rules has kept incandescent bulbs on store shelves, and research shows they’re concentrated in shops serving poorer areas.
www.nytimes.com
A fight over rooftop solar threatens California's climate goals

A fight over rooftop solar threatens California's climate goals

Utility regulators have proposed slashing the incentives homeowners receive to install solar panels, a long-sought goal of utilities and labor unions.
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Jonathan Pershing to leave job as climate diplomat

Jonathan Pershing to leave job as climate diplomat

Jonathan Pershing, a veteran diplomat, worked to reassert the U.S. role in global negotiations. He said he was optimistic that the world will avert climate catastrophe.
www.nytimes.com
offshore wind developers eyeing Louisiana

World's biggest offshore wind developers eyeing Louisiana for Gulf's first turbines

The Texas coast may have better winds for offshore wind development, but it’s Louisiana’s political winds that are drawing the interest of the industry’s two biggest players.
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Drought-resistant farming

Drought-resistant farming catching on in New Mexico

More farmers are using cover crops, soil additives and crops suitable for drip irrigation in order to weather the drought.
www.santafenewmexican.com
Norco adventure game exemplifies global warming

Mapping climate grief, one pixel at a time

Norco, an indie adventure game about an oil town menaced by global warming, is a striking contribution to American landscape art.
www.newyorker.com
selling more electric cars in America

The simplest way to sell more electric cars in America

Decades-old laws that protect car dealers are keeping the U.S. stuck in the gas-powered past.
www.theatlantic.com
Arctic oil barges go aground in icy Kara Sea

Major disaster averted in icy Kara Sea after two oil barges ran aground

Russia’s Marine Rescue Service describes the unprecedented salvage operation as "extremely difficult" as ice was rapidly building up on the structures of the barges in the freezing cold polar night.

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climate causes energy conocophillips

ConocoPhillips’ plan for extracting half-a-billion barrels of crude in Alaska’s fragile Arctic presents a defining moment for Joe Biden

After the Trump administration rushed through the Willow Project in its waning days, a federal judge temporarily halted development pending additional review. Environmentalists want Biden to kill Willow once and for all.

insideclimatenews.org
climate data research

Lisa Goddard, 55, dies; brought climate data to those who needed it

Lisa Goddard helped show government agencies around the world how to predict upcoming droughts, flooding and other extreme weather events.

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As economy recovers, climate threat grows

As economy recovers, climate threat grows

As economic activity has resumed, so has pollution. After dramatic reductions in 2020, U.S. emission rates soared by more than 6% last year and are expected to continue rising as the economy reaches higher levels of normalcy.

www.startribune.com
maryland climate impacts

Maryland gives itself B-minus for adapting to climate change in coastal areas

Maryland’s report card, which was released Friday, gives the state an overall grade of B-minus. However, the review outlined several shortfalls that could lead to more significant damage.
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israel trees forests

Israel wants to plant more trees to combat climate change, but just cut down 300,000 of them

Urban renewal plans see mature trees of great environmental import cut down across Israel, and activists warn of long-term damage

www.haaretz.com
bog biodiversity climate

Border Mires bog restoration to aid climate change fight

Ancient bog lands labelled some of the UKs most important are set for further restoration work to help tackle climate change and boost biodiversity.

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climate impacts flooding water

PNNL: Understanding coastal zones can help prepare for disaster

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are leading a multi-institution collaboration focused on better understanding the impact that flood events, rising tides and changes in sea levels can have on trees, plants, soil and water.

www.tri-cityherald.com
floating homes climate impacts

Climate change and how capitalism surfs rising seas of human folly

In the Netherlands, more people are living and working in buildings that float. The amphibious structures are built along shorelines and connected to utilities while gently floating to accommodate rising sea levels and more frequent flooding.

www.lcsun-news.com
climate impacts republicans politics

Republicans focus on effects, not causes, of climate change

Republican governors are confronting rising sea levels and wildfires as concern increases. “We’re not doing any left-wing stuff,” Florida’s Ron DeSantis says.
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varshini prakash sunrise movement

Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash on not losing hope on climate change: "I'm still here fighting"

Varshini Prakash spoke to Salon about "To the End," which tracks her efforts and that of AOC and two other eco-activists.

www.salon.com
climate faith anglicans

Anglicans are wrestling with 'climate change' in their pews: Will they adapt and survive?

Journalist Michael Kinsley famously added a twist to American politics when he redefined a "gaffe" as when "a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say." As the Rev. Neil Elliot of the Anglican Church of Canada discovered, this term also applies to religious leaders.

www.getreligion.org
climate impacts don't look up

Can works like 'Don't Look Up' get us out of our heads?

In the doomsday smash and Bo Burnham’s pandemic musical “Inside,” themes of climate change, digital distraction and inequality merge and hit home.
www.nytimes.com
Enbridge uses scoring system to track Indigenous opposition

Enbridge uses scoring system to track Indigenous opposition

When the oil company Enbridge sought to build its Line 3 pipeline through northern Minnesota, it faced opposition from Indigenous-led water protectors. The company moved to coordinate with local police as they cracked down on the resistance.

theintercept.com
manatee health biodiversity

An urgent effort is underway to save Florida’s manatees

Florida is scrambling to prevent another horrific year of starvation deaths among the beloved mammals
www.washingtonpost.com
climate solutions energy Todd Miller

Todd Miller: Learn benefits of clean renewable energy for rural Missouri

We are in the middle of not one, but two pandemics. The less obvious one is climate change. Even the Pentagon regards it as a threat to our national security.

www.kansascity.com
climate impacts antarctic

Canadian scientist examines melting Antarctic glacier, potential sea level rise

The Arctic sea ice has suffered devastating loss and has shrunk to its second lowest on record. Melting sea ice is just one of many signs of a warming climate in the North. Emanuela Campanella explains how climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic Circle.

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climate change

Peter Dykstra: A year into the Biden Administration, environmental hope is sparse

Back in the heady days of 1999, NBC gave activist filmmaker Michael Moore an unprecedented opportunity to take on corporate America.

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In Georgia, bloated costs take over a nuclear power plant and a fight looms over who pays

In Georgia, bloated costs take over a nuclear power plant and a fight looms over who pays

Ballooning cost overruns and construction delays at Georgia Power Co.’s  Vogtle nuclear project threaten to cost the state’s electricity consumers  billions of dollars in the decades to come, a new think tank report concludes. The report, from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a nonprofit advancing a sustainable energy economy, builds a case […]
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'New era': Australia notches startling southern hemisphere record

'New era': Australia notches startling southern hemisphere record

One heat reading on Thursday equaled the highest temperature on record in the Southern Hemisphere.
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